Nashville Scene

Nashville Scene

For the Jewish holiday of Purim (taking place this weekend), bakers painstakingly make hamentashen, triangular filled cookies that resemble the three-cornered hat that Haman, the villain in the Purim story, wore. Each cookie is hand-filled and hand-shaped.

Nashville Scene

Nashville Scene

This week's issue of the Scene has a fascinating piece by Margaret Littman with some backstory on the dispute that led to two separate (and some would say competing) farmers markets on the west side: Sean Siple's West Nashville Farmers Market and the new West End Farmers Market, started by the folks at Delvin Farms. The split is the stuff of huge gossip and speculation in town, and in addition to talking to both sides — Siple and Delvin Farms' owner Hank Delvin Jr. — Littman consulted other voices in the local sustainable food movement, including Megan Morton, executive director of Community Food Advocates, an organization working toward a sustainable food system; and Andrea Cloninger Wilson, a professor of sustainable food systems at Lipscomb University.